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The six films include the tale of an ogre who preys on women, a sci-fi Nigeria taken over by AI, and a girl on a mission to end droughtTraditional African tales of monsters, genies and malevolent spirits have been reworked for a contemporary audience i…
Risk of unrest rises amid fourth dry year, poor grain harvest, weak economy and likely food subsidy cutsTunisia has introduced water rationing as the country suffers its fourth year of severe drought.The state water distribution company, Sonede, has al…
Museveni says homosexuality is ‘danger to procreation of human race’ at Entebbe conference hosted by US anti-LGBTQ+ hate groupThe Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, has called on African leaders to reject “the promotion of homosexuality”, suggesting h…
UK supermarkets heavily reliant on strawberries from southern Spain, where workers allege they are regularly underpaid, have passports withheld and are forced to live in unsanitary shacksAbusive conditions are endemic in parts of Spain’s fruit sector, …
Prosecutors seek compensation for workers kept on cattle ranch owned by German carmaker during dictatorship from 1973 to 1987Brazil is threatening to take the German carmaker Volkswagen to court over allegations that it used slave labour on a vast ranc…
Watchdog finds Home Office reliance on private contracts to house refugees, often in hotels, forced Foreign Office to slice its budgetA third of the UK’s overseas aid budget was spent by the Home Office on housing refugees in a poorly managed programme…
India’s patent office turns down bedaquiline extension to Johnson & Johnson, clearing the way for generic versionsPeople with drug-resistant tuberculosis in India could soon have access to critical medication at a far lower cost after the authoriti…
Fifa and Qatar claimed the World Cup would transform workers’ rights, but 100 days on from the final, the Guardian has found that for some it has become worseSecurity guards employed by a company with contracts at sites linked to the World Cup in Qatar…
Matiullah Wesa, head of Pen Path, beaten and arrested outside a mosque after prayersThe founder of a project that campaigned for girls’ education in Afghanistan has been detained by Taliban authorities in Kabul, his brother and the UN have said.The Tal…
Thinktank calls on UK government to provide stronger regulation to protect workers from intrusive monitoring“Dystopian” worker surveillance techniques are more likely likely to disproportionately affect young people, women and ethnic minorities, a repo…